Music
IMAX | Release Date: February 12, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
12
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38
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 10, 2021
There's nothing fun about panning a feature by a first-time director, especially when it seems to come from a place of good intentions, but Music, a musical fantasy drama about an autistic teen, is bad. Mystifyingly bad. Verging on "What were they thinking?" bad. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinFeb 11, 2021
While it has a few incidental felicities to admire, by and large Music is a sentimental atrocity so cringe-inducing it should come with an advisory warning for anyone with preexisting shoulder or back injuries. Read full review
30
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 9, 2021
Attempting to celebrate the power of community and new beginnings, Sia’s directorial debut mostly serves as an unintended cautionary tale about chronic whimsy and outdated ideas. Read full review
25
The PlaylistRoxana HadadiFeb 11, 2021
This movie is literally and figuratively saying music can save your life, but the execution is all treacle and dust—overly sweet and utterly empty. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 11, 2021
Even if it’s possible to understand how Music got made, and even if you accept that Sia’s blinkered approach began with good intentions, such generous allowances don’t make this tone-deaf debacle any less difficult to stomach. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 18, 2021
An old-fashioned piece of shameless hokum, Sia’s Music might be hilarious if it weren’t so offensive. Read full review
20
The Observer (UK)Simran HansFeb 14, 2021
These self-consciously upbeat moments clash horribly with the wider redemption narrative. Read full review
20
SlateSara LutermanFeb 12, 2021
"Why don’t you watch my film before you judge it?” Sia tweeted in November, when outrage about the movie’s casting started to percolate. Well, I have watched the film, I am judging it, and it’s awful. Read full review
20
Paste MagazineJoseph StanicharFeb 11, 2021
Music is a bad movie, but I wish that were all it was. I can handle its poor pacing and stiff dialogue, but even doing research and writing an essay on the film’s problematic elements pre-release were not enough to prepare me for how harmful Music is to autistic people. Read full review
20
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeFeb 11, 2021
This is a bizarre movie, one that parades confused ideas about care, fantasy and disability with a pride that reads as vanity. It is audacious, in the sense that making it certainly took some audacity. Read full review
10
Vanity FairRichard LawsonFeb 11, 2021
Ziegler has been handed a cursed, impossible task, forced to act so far outside of herself—with seemingly little of the right guidance coming from the grownups in the room—that Music becomes something ghastly. It often feels like a movie made decades ago, one of those smarmily well-intentioned Hollywood exercises in issue-peddling that demands the gratitude of an entire community of people. Read full review
0
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 16, 2021
Music is totally unwatchable. Read full review
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